You assume that it's a good business strategy for a hypotherapist to try to convince skeptics. In reality, there are many people who aren't skeptics out there. For a hypnotherapist it's much more effective to focus on winning those people as customers.
I assume it's a good business strategy for a hypnotherapist to try to convince many customers. Getting in a tabloid with high circulation is a good start, getting on television is better.
You don't need to wait for occasions where you need surgery, having an ability to render yourself impervious to pain is begging for "Okay, prove it" challenges.
For pain beyond the ability of ordinary people to tolerate which won't produce lasting injury, I'd go for challenges involving capsaicin or an Active Denial System.
Finding skeptics willing to challenge your ability to do this under rigorous conditions would be a good way to get publicity, and if you're willing to place bets on it, a lot of money.
I assume it's a good business strategy for a hypnotherapist to try to convince many customers. Getting in a tabloid with high circulation is a good start, getting on television is better.
I think you overrate the effect of being on TV. I was involved with a few Quantified Self TV productions in Germany and in general they didn't brought more than a few new people to the QS meetups. Personal referrals do much more than mainstream media.
I also know a hypnotherapist who was on TV in a session where he cured a women of a phobia of taking pictures. It was ni...
I started going out with a fantastic girl a couple of weeks ago. Everything is great, except that whenever I've sent her a text message or email requesting something and haven't received a response yet, I experience significant dysphoric anxiety, fearing that her response will be not just "no" but "no and I don't want to date you any more". This is due to brain chemistry or personal history, take your pick—either seems like a possible explanation to me. But there's certainly no evidence supporting the idea that this is likely to happen, nor is the anxiety helping me prevent it or helping me in any other way.
Does anyone have evidence-based advice, or pointers to same, on dealing with this kind of issue? It is the only splotch on what have otherwise been the best two weeks of my life.